Lesson 3: MS Excel and its parts

   In our modern age, computers have become the premier tools for various users and needs, from data management to more sophisticated applications.Today some people use the electronic spreadsheet called MS Excel. Microsoft Excel is one of the most used electronic spreadsheet programs today. Today I learned the important in using the MS Excel in making the number computations.

  MS Excel is using a spreadsheet that use to enter data. A spreadsheet are the wide sheets of paper used by some people in making number computations, ledgers, inventories, and other. With the coming of the computers, there were programs made to function as spreadsheets. An electronic spreadsheet is a computerize version of a manual spreadsheet.

   Electronic spreadsheet are computer applications or programs that allow the users to manipulate and navigate spreadsheets using the computers.However, because of the power of computers, electronic spreadsheet now come with many features, and incorporate graphics, formulas, and information.

   Microsoft Excel is an electronic spreadsheet program that created by the Microsoft Corporation to be used in Windows. It has three components:

• Spreadsheet - allows the users to organize or analyze text or numbers displayed in a cells of rows and numbers.
• Database - allows the users to manipulate data or informations in a database.
• Charts- allows the users to display data or informations using charts.

Like the Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel has also a parts that use in making datas, these are the following:

• Menus bar - contains various commands that can be used by the users for different purposes and tasks.
• Formula bar - shows the contains of the active or selected cells and displays the cell reference.
• Work book Window - contains the workbook where the users will work on, containing the data and formulas that entered.
• Status bar - displays informations about the current activity or tasks.

    Excel also organizes data to transfer it into relevant and useful informations. It is important that the user is proficient with the different elements of Excel which are used in handling these data.

   In Excel, the users use a workbook which is the file that use for work and where it store the data.Workbook are composed of several worksheets that the users can use to work on. It is where the users can input, store, organize, and analyze data.

  Worksheets are composed of the following:

•    Row - a series of small, rectangular boxes arranged horizontally and identified by a numbers.
• Column - a series of small, rectangular boxes arranged vertically and identified by a letters.
• Cell - this formed when a row and column intersect, and is one in a series of rectangular boxes. This where the users enter data and formula in the worksheets. The particular cell where you are currently working on is called the active cell

   The combinations of row and column forms a grid and their intersection forms a cell. A worksheet contains up to 256 column and 65,536 rows. About three worksheets are available as the default but can be increased as desired. The column begin with the letter A through the letter Z, AA through AZ, and so on, while the rows are numbered from 1 to 65,536 on the left side of the Excel window.